Mrs. Turpin Character Analysis

In the story’s by O’Connor “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and “Revelation” there are two main characters that stand out more due to the fact that they seem to thrive on not showing any true emotions. The grandmother in A Good Man is Hard to Find comes from a time era where woman, had always been thought to be lady like and be in touch with God. The grandmother gives all the characters a hard time because in her eyes, they are not lady like or well behave gentleman. This character thrives on being seen as a lady throughout the entire story. We also see some similarities in Mrs. Turpin in Revelation, where this character hides her true emotions and thoughts of others. Mrs. Turpin plays herself to be a kind person who feels that God has made her …show more content…
Turpin who is selfish to think that she is above others not fitted to her standards. Mrs. Turpin’s bad qualities are that she is a conscious person, deliberately racist, and a very hateful person. Mrs. Turpin is a conscious person who revolves around her own existence and anyone who she considers unworthy she thinks God made them that way because they deserve to be like that. The way that Mrs. Turpin judges people is based on the type of shoes they wear and how they are dressed. In Mrs. Turpin’s mind she is always aware of God because she refers to him on several occasions. Throughout the story Mrs. Turpin makes racist comments about colored people. She holds many racial thoughts in her mind of everyone that in her standards would be considered not good enough. O’Connor lets us see what goes on in the mind of a person who considers herself to be just like how God intended her to be and helping in the unfolding of the stories theme. When Mrs. Turpin gets hit on the head with a book by Mary Grace, that’s when her character gets a revelation of who she is and a second chance at changing her life around (388). But “the image of a razor-backed hog with warts on its face and horns coming out behind its ears snorted into her head” which brings her back to who she really is (390). Even though she has her revelation her character still remains hateful like when she called the colored ladies “idiots” for not being too smart when she confided into them what had happen (392). Mrs. Turpin’s role in the story is of a character that proceeds to call upon God for every good and bad thing that happens to her throughout the story. The story’s theme is judgmental, because throughout the entire story Mrs. Turpin has pre-judge every character in one way or another. At the revelation point she is the one who gets judged by Mary Grace and her character gets hurt but she still remains the